hi all, this is a wip. I’m trying to learn python scripting and this is my first project. What the script does, is show the keys you press in the lower left corner of the 3Dview. The idea is to have a visual aid of the shortcuts when doing screencasts with blender. I also want to thanks Crouch for his pacience with me.

Load the script in blender’s text editor, then run it. Go to 3dview press space and search for ‘Screencast Key Status Tool’ and execute it. Now the keys you press should appear in the lower left corner. To disable the script press F7.

here’s a short video showing the script in action:

and here’s the script:

you can now copy it to your addon directory and enable it in the user preferences addon menu, thanks Meta-Androcto

The script was broken by changes in Blender’s api (in specific, the addition of fontid in the blf module). I’ve fixed it in the Blender Extensions project. It’s now working correctly again for current svn (tested on 28653).Download link

Hello there very interesting script. However, from the video I guess it could be even better when next to the pressed key would be the name of what was triggered - usually the name of the operator.
That would be awesome

pildanovak: nice idea, but might be hard to implement properly. Only way I can see right now is to check the keymap for the corresponding function. This might be easier once we get access to notifiers and listeners.

Sunjay03: strange, no problem here with alt+left-click. Did you enable Emulate 3 Button Mouse in the user preferences? It’s necessary for alt+left-click to work. (I believe in 2.4x it was enabled by default, while in 2.5x it’s disabled by default)

pildanovak: nice idea, but might be hard to implement properly. Only way I can see right now is to check the keymap for the corresponding function. This might be easier once we get access to notifiers and listeners.

Sunjay03: strange, no problem here with alt+left-click. Did you enable Emulate 3 Button Mouse in the user preferences? It’s necessary for alt+left-click to work. (I believe in 2.4x it was enabled by default, while in 2.5x it’s disabled by default)

I realized that it was my fault entirely. I hadn’t even enabled Alt+Click in my user preferences yet!

Great Script. I wrote a version for Blender 2.45 (used on my DVD http://blenderbuch.de/DVD.php) but it was (also caused by some Blender bugs) not nearly as perfect as yours. But since then I did not had time to port it to Blender 2.5x, so yours is very welcome.

Now we only need audio-recording and Blender is the first(?) application with a complete video tutorial creation suite